By the time most of the things you listed could happen, I believe humanity will have found ways to travel interstellar distances in a relatively short period of time, and we will be sending out fleets of ships to either a) explore or b) colonize other worlds.

So, even if earth gets torn to pieces by something, or all its inhabitants die, some of humanity will remain, and thus re-populate.

We may become an endangered species, but ever extinct, humans are too stubborn for that.

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By the time most of the things you listed could happen, I believe humanity will have found ways to travel interstellar distances in a relatively short period of time, and we will be sending out fleets of ships to either a) explore or b) colonize other worlds.

So, even if earth gets torn to pieces by something, or all its inhabitants die, some of humanity will remain, and thus re-populate.

We may become an endangered species, but ever extinct, humans are too stubborn for that.

research the supervolcano under yellowstone. Erupts every 600,000 years or so and its overdue. It's not the explosion that could kill us all but how the smoke will cover there Earth for a couple of years which will lead to worldwide starvation. Plus the ash is toxic and has microscopic blades, so anyone breathing that in will burn to death from the inside out. Could happen before we are prepared.

I'm entirely aware of what the supervolcano under yellowstone is and what it represents.

Assuming it actually happens, do I think it will kill a very large number of us? Yes.

Do I think it will end all human life on earth? No.

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I voted 'billions of years,' but that's not a really good one.
To be honest, it is a very hard subject... Because what, exactly, constitutes 'going extinct?' At some point, homo sapiens will have disappeared, and it's quite likely that it never actually went extinct.

Gawd..I mean...your guess is as useless as mine. Considering 99.9% of all species that ever existed died out, sure, we will die out. But how can we even guess? Can be tomorrow, can be in 2000 years.

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Going extinct is a really ridiculous proposition. I mean, if there's a plague or something, there's always Madagascar to keep the race alive. We have more than enough people to create millions of sustainable genepools.

Our civilisations might die, which would be a big bummer, but homo sapiens would survive. I'm inclined to say the biggest threat to our species' existence is genetic modification turning homo sapiens into super sapiens or The Upload, and even then, tribal Africa would endure.

I would guess in the millions though it would be more accurate to say I think we will have evolved into something by then that is barely recognizable to us today. Even more than comparing "modern" man to monkeys. We might lose our technology or even our society but mankind has proved adaptable enough that, baring losing our atmosphere, we will survive in some shape or form.

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By the time most of the things you listed could happen, I believe humanity will have found ways to travel interstellar distances in a relatively short period of time, and we will be sending out fleets of ships to either a) explore or b) colonize other worlds.

So, even if earth gets torn to pieces by something, or all its inhabitants die, some of humanity will remain, and thus re-populate.

We may become an endangered species, but ever extinct, humans are too stubborn for that.

As soon as a barrier exists between breeding populations you can consider them effectively as two different species.
gien suficant time and accumulated adaptation to diferent environments. something call a barrier emerges. distance being one form of pre zygotic barrier.

the next reason humans will go extinct in the next 100 years or so is the inclusion of self replicating computers that exist inside all your cells. you inherit theses symbionts like you inherit mitochondria. from your mom. so, once humans integrate a some form of microprocessor into our physiology, we simply cease to be human. the old forms without integrated information processors will eventual cease to exist from competition.

humanity will not die out, a vasts majority will guaranteed. I don't think humans are ready to move from this planet anytime soon ( meaning next couple thousands years). Yes we have made underrepresented achievements in the past 50 years, but humanity as a whole is just way to ignorant at this point in time. A major event in the evolution of the human species will divide the weak from the strong. Sound familiar ? just how I see things

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I don't think we'll go extinct, we may evolve into beings that only slightly resemble our current selves, but I don't think we'll go extinct.

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